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Writers from Schenectady, New York

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The list Writers from Schenectady, New York includes John Sayles, Dave Garroway, Arnold Lobel, Ranald MacDougall and Mary Daly. The list consists of 31 members.

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Schenectady, New York
City in New York, United States
  • 1.

    John Sayles
    American film director
    John Sayles
    Overview: John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an American independent film director, screenwriter, editor, actor, and novelist. He has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Sc ...
    Date of birth: 28 September 1950
    Age: 74
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 4" (193 cm)
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    Actors from Schenectady, New York 13T
    Screenwriters from New York (state) 1,175T
    American male screenwriters 3,908T
  • 2.

    Dave Garroway
    Television journalist
    Dave Garroway
    Overview: David Cunningham Garroway (July 13, 1913 – July 21, 1982) was an American television personality. He was the founding host and anchor of NBC's Today from 1952 to 1961. His easygoing and relaxing style ...
    Date of birth: 13 July 1913
    Date of death: 21 July 1982
    Age: 69 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: TV News
    Gender: Male
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    1982 suicides 43T
    Military personnel from Schenectady, New York 25T
    NBC News people 191T
  • 3.

    Ranald MacDougall
    American screenwriter
    Ranald MacDougall
    Overview: Ranald MacDougall (March 10, 1915 – December 12, 1973) was an American screenwriter who scripted such films as Mildred Pierce (1945), The Unsuspected (1947), June Bride (1948), and The Naked Jungle (1954) ...
    Date of birth: 10 March 1915
    Date of death: 12 December 1973
    Age: 58 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century American screenwriters 1,746T
    20th-century American male writers 6,911T
    Screenwriters from New York (state) 1,175T
  • 4.

    Mary Daly
    Feminist theologian
    Mary Daly
    Overview: Mary Daly (October 16, 1928 – January 3, 2010) was an American radical feminist philosopher, academic, and theologian. Daly, who described herself as a "radical lesbian feminist", taught at the Jesuit-run ...
    Date of birth: 16 October 1928
    Date of death: 3 January 2010
    Age: 81 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    American women non-fiction writers 2,184T
    20th-century American non-fiction writers 3,627T
    21st-century American non-fiction writers 3,037T
  • 5.

    Arnold Lobel
    American, Writer
    Arnold Lobel
    Overview: Arnold Stark Lobel (May 22, 1933 – December 4, 1987) was an American author of children's books, including the Frog and Toad series and Mouse Soup. He both wrote and illustrated those picture books, as ...
    Date of birth: 22 May 1933
    Date of death: 4 December 1987
    Age: 54 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    Lobel family 3T
    Jewish American children's writers 87T
    20th-century American LGBT people 2,059T
  • 6.

    Kevin Burns
    American, Producer
    Kevin Burns
    Overview: Kevin Burns (born June 18, 1955 – September 27, 2020) was an American television and film producer, director, and screenwriter. His work can be seen on A&E, National Geographic Channel, E!, Animal ...
    Date of birth: 18 June 1955
    Date of death: 27 September 2020
    Age: 65 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Producer
    Gender: Male
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    2020 deaths 13,749T
    Businesspeople from Schenectady, New York 19T
    Film producers from New York (state) 806T
  • 7.

    William James Stillman
    American artist
    William James Stillman
    Overview: William James Stillman (June 1, 1828 – July 6, 1901) was an American journalist, diplomat, author, historian, and photographer. Educated as an artist, Stillman subsequently converted to the profession ...
    Date of birth: 1 June 1828
    Date of death: 6 July 1901
    Age: 73 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Artist
    Gender: Male
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    American male painters 3,659T
    19th-century American painters 1,392T
    Union College (New York) alumni 464T
  • 8.

    Anne Mazer
    American novelist
    Overview: Anne Mazer is the American author of forty-five books, including The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes series encompassing twenty two books, The Salamander Room, and The No-Nothings and Their Baby.
    Date of birth: 1953
    Age: 71
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    Novelists from New York (state) 1,277T
    American women children's writers 582T
    21st-century American women writers 4,233T
  • 9.

    Joshua Seftel
    American film director
    Joshua Seftel
    Overview: Joshua Seftel (born July 17, 1968) is an American filmmaker.[1] He currently lives in New York City and is represented by Creative Artists Agency in Los Angeles. Seftel began his career in documentaries ...
    Date of birth: 17 July 1968
    Age: 56
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Film Director
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' (183 cm)
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    Film producers from New York (state) 581T
    Film directors from New York 141T
    Television producers from New York 168T
  • 10.

    Alison Des Forges
    American historian and human rights activist
    Alison Des Forges
    Overview: Alison Des Forges (née Liebhafsky) (August 20, 1942 – February 12, 2009) was an American historian and human rights activist who specialized in the African Great Lakes region, particularly the 1994 Rwandan ...
    Date of birth: 20 August 1942
    Date of death: 12 February 2009
    Age: 66 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Historian
    Gender: Female
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    Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni 377T
    Historians of Rwanda 11T
    Historians from New York (state) 774T
  • 11.

    Michael Cremo
    American alternative archeologist
    Michael Cremo
    Overview: Michael A. Cremo (born July 15, 1948), also known by his devotional name Drutakarmā dāsa, is an American freelance researcher who identifies himself as a Vedic creationist and an "alternative archeologist" ...
    Date of birth: 15 July 1948
    Age: 76
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    Proponents of alternative chronologies 12T
    American male writers 5,949T
    21st-century American writers 2,101T
  • 12.

    Edward Sagarin
    American writer
    Overview: Edward Sagarin (September 18, 1913 – June 10, 1986), also known by his pen name Donald Webster Cory, was an American professor of sociology and criminology at the City University of New York, and a writer ...
    Date of birth: 18 September 1913
    Date of death: 10 June 1986
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Sociologist
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century American male writers 6,911T
    Educators from New York City 297T
    Novelists from New York (state) 1,277T
  • 13.

    Erik Wemple
    American newspaper editor
    Overview: Erik Wemple is an American journalist who works as a media critic at The Washington Post. He was formerly the editor of the alternative weekly Washington City Paper.
    Date of birth: 18 August 1964
    Age: 60
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Editor
    Gender: Male
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    21st-century American male writers 3,233T
    20th-century American male writers 6,911T
    20th-century American journalists 2,165T
  • 14.

    Ray Nelson
    American novelist (1931–2022)
    Ray Nelson
    Overview: Radell Faraday Nelson (October 3, 1931 – November 30, 2022) was an American science fiction author and cartoonist most famous for his 1963 short story "Eight O'Clock in the Morning", which was later used ...
    Date of birth: 3 October 1931
    Date of death: 30 November 2022
    Age: 91 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Novelist
    Gender: Male
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    2022 deaths 7,801T
    20th-century American male writers 9,107T
    Beat Generation people 34T
  • 15.

    Pat Cadigan
    science fiction author
    Pat Cadigan
    Overview: Pat Cadigan (born September 10, 1953) is an American science fiction author, whose work is most often identified with the cyberpunk movement. Her novels and short stories all share a common theme of e ...
    Date of birth: 10 September 1953
    Age: 71
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Novelist
    Gender: Female
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    Novelists from New York (state) 1,277T
    British speculative fiction editors 26T
    American speculative fiction editors 92T
  • 16.

    John Ball
    American novelist
    Overview: John Dudley Ball Jr. (July 8, 1911 – October 15, 1988) was an American writer best known for mystery novels involving the African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs. Tibbs was introduced in the 1965 ...
    Date of birth: 8 July 1911
    Date of death: 15 October 1988
    Age: 77 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Novelist
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century American male writers 6,911T
    Novelists from New York (state) 1,277T
    20th-century male writers 5,043T
  • 17.

    Elizabeth Rosner
    American poet
    Overview: Elizabeth Rosner is an American novelist, nonfiction author, essayist, and poet. She is author of three novels and a poetry collection. The Speed of Light was translated into nine languages and won several ...
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Novelist
    Gender: Female
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  • 18.

    Philip Kennicott
    American journalist
    Overview: Philip Kennicott is the chief Art and Architecture Critic of The Washington Post.
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Journalist
    Gender: Male
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  • 19.

    Mary Hellen Maher
    American librarian
    Overview: Mary Hellen Maher (1913-1998) was an American librarian known for her work in school libraries. She was active in state and national library and education associations. She served as president of the New ...
    Date of birth: 1913
    Date of death: 1998
    Age: 84 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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  • 20.

    Gilbert King (author)
    American writer and photographer (born 1962)
    Gilbert King (author)
    Overview: Gilbert Anthony King (born February 22, 1962) is an American writer and photographer. He is known best as the author of Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New ...
    Date of birth: 22 February 1962
    Age: 63
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Photographer
    Gender: Male
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    21st-century American male writers 3,233T
    21st-century American non-fiction writers 3,037T
    21st-century male writers 1,614T
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